The shrunken head of Susan Sontag.
The company was really small back then, at about 60 employees, and the founder was fanatical about attention to detail. My guess is they've dropped that practice now that they're huge.
And it's usually so simple to avoid. With a relatively fresh brain, read the letter aloud to yourself. You'll catch the mistakes pretty much every time.
I feel sorry for this guy, but he's got to up his proofreading and rein in the boasting. I worked in recruiting at a hedge fund in the 1990's and our chief counsel would read the cover letter on file for a candidate before an offer went out. The offer was scotched if he found a single typo or grammatical error.
That's not really true. Greenwald has written about economic justice, Wall Street, and the Occupy movement, and his views track with most progressives'. He gave some of his Salon real estate over to the inimitable Yves Smith while he was taking some time off, and I think that gesture speaks for itself. So "virtually nothing to say" isn't quite right, but I think he'd be willing to acknowledge that those aren't the areas that interest him the most.
I love him, too. And when I stare into his eyes in that picture, I know he loves me back.
I love the fact that Nixon, a rich and famous actress who's got all of the privileges in the world, needs to defend herself in this way. She doesn't seem to understand that her words are destructive and undermine the work that LGBT activists have been engaged in for years. Hers is the most pernicious kind of narcissism. As an active member of the LGBT community I'm going to say thanks, but no thanks.
There is nothing about being bisexual that needs to be apologized for, excused, or recast in any way. Being and living as bisexual is just as legitimate as being gay, lesbian, or transgendered.
The labels "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," and "transgendered" have been used as epithets against us for years. The only way this changes is for people like you and Cynthia Nixon to embrace these terms and make them your own.
Ugh. Thanks. How does this work?
Nixon is capable of being romantically involved with both men and women. Is that not the definition of bisexual?
I suppose I'm tired of people claiming that bisexuality doesn't exist, which is what Nixon is saying here. That seems much more Santorum-esque than what I've said above.
The problem with what Nixon said is that she is on the record as cringing from the "bisexual" label, and her professed view of her own sexuality effectively renders bisexuality invisible. Nixon says
"I don’t pull out the 'bisexual' word because nobody likes the bisexuals. Everybody likes to dump on the bisexuals."
It is absolutely the case that no one gets to define Nixon's sexuality for her, but it's equally true that I'm entitled to deplore Nixon's choice of words and call her out as someone who isn't comfortable with being bisexual, which she clearly is.
I wish she hadn't said what she said, because she has a public platform that few of us have, and her words are destructive, perhaps inadvertently so, to the cause of LGBT civil rights.
Here's a link to the quote:
One of the unremarked-upon ironies here is that it was Mitt's father who set the precedent for releasing tax returns.
Does Manhattan's new gay hotel want us to know that it was decorated by the "Showgirls" production designer? Because I think the cat's out of the bag on that one.
"Unwaveringly upbeat and positive..."?
Sounds like a real cock.
I interviewed at the legendary Silicon Valley law firm and asshole factory Wilson Sonsini when I was in law school and was asked by one of the partners I talked to whether I ever wanted to be rich, "because $700,000 a year is middle class around here." To which I should have responded, "FUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHK YOU!" but instead nodded politely and got drunk at the hotel they were putting me up in that night.
Memo to all Halo 4 gamers: Please refrain from pwning "NoKo69."
I'm pitching my Marc Jacobs mini-series to HBO next week. Working title: "Game of Clones."
If she had any common sense, let alone dignity, she would have resigned by now.
I thought that's what those little cameras they put in laptop lids were for.
All religions are just unbelievably stupid.
